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May 2007
JavaScript 1.8 for Firefox 3
John Resig posts on some of the new features making it into JavaScript 1.8 for Firefox 3. Interesting stuff. Too bad FF is always ahead of the curve for JavaScript and you can barely use this stuff. One day though.
Skinning MS SharePoint
Cameron Moll posts about his design efforts in giving MS SharePoint a face lift using Web Standards. I can speak from personal experience, this is a heck of a job.
JavaScript: Lingua Franca of the Web
Coding Horror continues to deliver awesome content with a look at JavaScript. “JavaScript is the world's most ubiquitous computing runtime” indeed. Excellent.
Prototype Packed Files
An industrious guy has specially packed and packaged the Prototype and Scriptaculous libraries for smaller distribution. That kinda rocks.
Silverlight vs. Flash: The Developer Story
Interesting comparison of Flash vs. Silverlight. One thing though, it's very “tools which create Flash apps-centric”, which does not help developers like us. The big issues I got were the codec and time-based aspects, but little else. Also, Visual Studio? Just not a fan at this point, I dunno.
Web Design 101: Backgrounds
Digital Web, in their Web Design 101 column, has a very lengthy review of the power and strength and features and ... well, everything about CSS backgrounds, and so on. Good stuff.
What are Web Standards?
A comprehensive explanation of what is comprised in the term. Excellent review and roundup.
Formal Weirdness
Eric Meyer on CSS for form controls. More questions than answers.
Make Your Site Mobile Friendly
Cool article over at Vitamin on making sites accessible to mobile devices. Covers some basics and has good links to emulators, etc.
70 Expert Ideas for Better CSS Coding
Everyone else is linking to this, but I figured hey why not, it looks to be a pretty darn good round up, running the risk of making other resources obsolete. I still gotta look over the whole thing to see if I agree or not.
FAuST - Flash Augmenting Standards
Flash as a 4th layer in the 3 tiers of UI development. Interesting, if not *that* groundbreaking.
Why Flash is on its way out as a website platform
Interesting evaluation of why a guy thinks Flash is on the outs as a Web platform. Interesting perspective...
On having layout
Ever heard of hasLayout? This is an excellent dissection of the MS IE only property which is hard to explain, understand, and work around. It goes contrary to many a CSS rule. Gets you every time.
Microsoft is Dead
Is Microsoft dead? I don't know, I see a lot of MS every single day and most of our clients are using their technology...
Search Engine Ranking Factors
Great round up of SEO qualifiers and what page and site components are most important in getting decent search engine rankings. Awesome.
Mozilla Foundation CEO Interview
Great interview with Mitchell Baker, the CEO of the Mozilla Foundation, on Firefox in the marketplace and the future of the platform.
Andy Budd on CSS3 and CSS 2.2?
Andy Budd discusses the current state of the CSS specs and what their status is.
Managing Style and State
Jonathan Snook posts a cool article on selections and menu on states with CSS and JavaScript. I'll have to examine this more, as at work we've experimented with what looks like many similar approaches.